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I noticed that USA has reruns of Friday Night Lights, Chuck and 2 eps of Life on Saturday afternoon, and yet only Life has the HD icon. Should it be assumed that all 3 will be in hd. Ive missed the first eps of Chuck and it'd be nice to catchup in HD.

Just got home and The Fast and the Furious (horrible movie) looks amazing on USAHD. I think we can expect the same quality as Universal HD on these new NBC channels. Best of all no Stretch-o-vision crap

Life looks a hell of a lot better on USA, then it did on NBC. One has to wonder what the heck the networks are doing to their shows. I have seen many complaints about HD on NBC, yet on USA it looks awesome.

By the way, I read somewhere that Neilsen ratings allowed double dipping for show ratings, perhaps this is why we are seeing these shows repeated on USA in HD. Not a 100% sure on the details of how ratings work, but just a thought. At the least, NBC has another chance at catching perspective viewers. If replays of NBC shows on USA become the norm, I would prefer to watch them here. The downside is that USA would have to provide less HD programming.

Life looks a hell of a lot better on USA, then it did on NBC. One has to wonder what the heck the networks are doing to their shows. I have seen many complaints about HD on NBC, yet on USA it looks awesome.

By the way, I read somewhere that Neilsen ratings allowed double dipping for show ratings, perhaps this is why we are seeing these shows repeated on USA in HD. Not a 100% sure on the details of how ratings work, but just a thought. At the least, NBC has another chance at catching perspective viewers. If replays of NBC shows on USA become the norm, I would prefer to watch them here. The downside is that USA would have to provide less HD programming.

I fully expect WWE to go full HD by or around their target date of January 2008 for SmackDown. As of today they have the resources from all their network partners. NBC is in HD (Saturday Night's Main Event) CW is in HD (SmackDown). USA is NOW in HD! (RAW). And SciFi is NOW in HD! (ECW). By January all three should be broadcasting in stunning HD, how exciting. Oh yeah and their Pay-Per-Views will obviously go HD too!

Even though Law & Order got blasted in a couple earlier posts, I will say that I love SVU. I believe it's by far the best show in the franchise...but I'm still waiting on Law & Order: Paperwork Division:)

Last night they ran an older episode (pre Ice-T) and showed it in HD. I know this episode always ran in 4:3 prior to yesterday but was letterboxed on USA and in HD on USA HD. That's cool.

Is anyone else still getting a 771 - searching for signal error on USA HD?

That's what I was getting at about 6 AM PDT on Wednesday, however when I got home from work and tuned to the channel about 7 PM PDT I had it. But later that same evening it was gone again. I checked the signal strength on the sat and TPs 2, 4, and 6 were at 60, 60 and 68 respectively. Now they are down in the 50s.

After spending some quality time this morning with a D* CSR is looks like I've got a bad splice from my last service call, when my LNB was replaced. So I've got another service call for Saturday. The good news is that it looks like the problem will be easy to fix (I hope!); the bad news is no L&O: CI in HD for me tonight. Cry for me Argentina!

I noticed that as well but I have been really looking forward to this channel for Monk episodes. Universal shows just the early seasons of Monk. I have avoided watching it on SD USA for the last few years. Now I will have lots of reruns to watch that I haven't seen yet!

I'm having my first non-BTN, new HD channel experience tonight watching the new episode of CI on USAHD. Why the heck is that stupid logo so freaking far into my picture? Can't they move that thing into the corner where it belongs?

I noticed that as well but I have been really looking forward to this channel for Monk episodes. Universal shows just the early seasons of Monk. I have avoided watching it on SD USA for the last few years. Now I will have lots of reruns to watch that I haven't seen yet!

Watched the "Greatest Fan" Monk episode last night. Quite a delight in HD.